Neola
Neola is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 952nd, in 1905.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 191840 births
- Best rank
- #952in 1905
- Since 1888
- 1,014people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,014 girls have been named Neola in the United States since 1888, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1918, with 40 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 40 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1923, and the 1920s alone account for 31%. It has spent 1 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 1918, its biggest year
Neola was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1918 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1918.
Names that rose and fell with Neola
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Nomapeak 1916
- Rubyepeak 1919
- Adellpeak 1921
- Neomapeak 1924
- Jewellpeak 1920
- Velmapeak 1921
- Mildredpeak 1920
- Myrticepeak 1918
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.